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Re: bullet train boondoggle!!! Say it ain't so Joe....
Author: HUTCH 7.62
Date: 01-14-2017 - 09:50
BOB2 Wrote:
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> Federal funds lapsing, questions about match, poor
> morale, cost overruns, no plan, rats deserting
> ship.......where have I heard that before....?
>
> I remember, you heard it first, right here on
> Altamont Press......
>
> It's not surprising, there are actually published
> laws and rules that you are required to follow
> when you accept Federal funds, and this
> organizations has never had the organization, the
> staff, or the leadership capable of proper
> oversight. Just..."build it and they will
> come....", right?.
>
> Now, it's really going to get interesting. I've
> heard that the CHSRA may even have to repay
> Federal funds, already expended, which may not
> have been properly matched. There are likely to
> be Congressional Hearings, and Brown is even
> stymied by his own majority in the legislature,
> who are showing increasing frustration with this
> diversion of scarce rail funding from many other
> worthwhile projects, to this bloated fiasco.
That would be the cherry on top of the sundae. The Limo Libs would push for seccesion in the namonly driving this state into the hole even further. Can you imagine this state surviving without any Federal funds (I can't). And if the state tried to reduce or end it's social programs to save the budget, there would be riots in every major city.
HSR is such a waste of money. Money that could of been better spent. On shovel ready projects. Or extending the San Joaquins to LA, the Capitol Corridor trains, Coast Line,and LOSSAN. So many other options than wasting money on a super train to nowhere.
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> Federal funds lapsing, questions about match, poor
> morale, cost overruns, no plan, rats deserting
> ship.......where have I heard that before....?
>
> I remember, you heard it first, right here on
> Altamont Press......
>
> It's not surprising, there are actually published
> laws and rules that you are required to follow
> when you accept Federal funds, and this
> organizations has never had the organization, the
> staff, or the leadership capable of proper
> oversight. Just..."build it and they will
> come....", right?.
>
> Now, it's really going to get interesting. I've
> heard that the CHSRA may even have to repay
> Federal funds, already expended, which may not
> have been properly matched. There are likely to
> be Congressional Hearings, and Brown is even
> stymied by his own majority in the legislature,
> who are showing increasing frustration with this
> diversion of scarce rail funding from many other
> worthwhile projects, to this bloated fiasco.
That would be the cherry on top of the sundae. The Limo Libs would push for seccesion in the namonly driving this state into the hole even further. Can you imagine this state surviving without any Federal funds (I can't). And if the state tried to reduce or end it's social programs to save the budget, there would be riots in every major city.
HSR is such a waste of money. Money that could of been better spent. On shovel ready projects. Or extending the San Joaquins to LA, the Capitol Corridor trains, Coast Line,and LOSSAN. So many other options than wasting money on a super train to nowhere.
